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I just got a notification to take the Ubuntu 14.04 update. What could go wrong, right? I'm stuck in low-graphics mode. It's similar to this question. The problem is Ctrl+Alt+F1 doesn't take me to a terminal. It takes me to a screen that says:

Initializing built-in extension XXXX
Loading extension GLS
Loading extension
etc
etc

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Zanna
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Nathan Schwermann
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I could guess that the TTY1 is showing that information but the rest of the TTY (2 to 6) do not). So my advice is to CTRL+ALT+2 or 3 and see if you get the login prompt there. If you do, then follow on with the rest of the steps.

Luis Alvarado
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  • ctrl+alt+2 or 3 don't seem to work either. I can get to the terminal if I don't go into recovery mode by pressing ctrl+alt+f4. Is it possible to somehow fix the issue from there, or from the root shell in recovery mode? – Nathan Schwermann Sep 04 '14 at 00:10
  • You can fix it from there or recovery. I am glad that at least F4 works. I would do a full upgrade from there, many times an update will fix this. – Luis Alvarado Sep 04 '14 at 00:38
  • So basically you suggest running these commands? http://lawrit.lawr.ucdavis.edu/it-help-center/how-to/upgrading-ubuntu-via-command-line – Nathan Schwermann Sep 04 '14 at 18:34
  • @schwiz correct. I even would go out and suggest to do a "reinstall" of the packages just in case one of them does not install but still is missing a configuration file. That would be like "sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop xserver-xorg" – Luis Alvarado Sep 04 '14 at 18:51
  • So I tried the reinstall like you said but it fails saying no space left on device tons of times. I have 11 gigs of free space. Although, if I run df on the /tmp folder its trying to use it says the size is only 1M – Nathan Schwermann Sep 05 '14 at 02:58
  • Any news about this case? – Luis Alvarado Sep 16 '14 at 00:01
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    Crazy thing, I woke up one morning and it was fixed. I think my issue was I ran out of disc space. Once I deleted stuff it somehow fixed itself while I was away. – Nathan Schwermann Sep 16 '14 at 12:15